Great weather continues into the end of the week, which pleases our canoeing and archery groups.  Check out our photos on flickr to see what our ateliers have been up to.  Today’s theme, the Révolution Française, has installed some semblance of a system of nobility in our daily life here at Lac du Bois.   The family Cannelle was chosen at random as Lac du Bois nobles during this morning’s breakfast.  During lunchtime the villagers met Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI for our Révolution Française day.  Beginning with this afternoon meal, the staff carried out an all day simulation dividing villagers and counselors both into la noblesse and les paysans.  Those chosen villagers and a few counselors ate tartiflette and peas together at a separate table while the rest of our village carried on as usual.  Through meal sketches and our triangle de sagesse we explained the famine and corruption that lead up to the revolt.  As the peasants were transporting water down a human chain to fill buckets a half orchestrated half impulsive uprising broke out and they stormed the Bastille (Sauna).  An intense water balloon fight ensued between the nobles and the peasants; each fallen noble became a peasant and the two groups had to work together.  They played team-building games to learn the whereabouts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.  Once found, the couple was taken to the quai where they entered the guillotine (pushed into the lake).  After these activities we all signed the declaration des droits de l’homme and sang around out campfire before heading to bed.

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